Intellectual activism requires sharp thinking and research, honest and dispassionate analysis, and common sense grounded in experience and observation on a subject.
While there might be strong arguments for drawing such a distinction on both textual and common sense grounds, the question is whether Leibowitz can consistently allow such external concerns to intrude upon religion without usurping it.
To deny this on Common Sense grounds seems, somehow, anti-American. .
In our conversation everyone showed up with an agreement to abide by simple common-sense ground rules and with a genuine desire to share thoughts, feelings, hopes, and fears.
They put the focus on saving lives, with a comprehensive, common sense, common ground approach.
We need to find a common sense middle ground between opposing wholesale beliefs that psychiatric medicine is all good or all bad.
The statement by leading fashion retailers in Cambodia, in the face of government intransigence, that they are "ready to factor in higher wages and want more co-operation with trade unions" is common sense yet ground-breaking.
The "common ground," "common sense" compromises reached to pass PEPFAR came at the cost of the lives of untold numbers of women and youth.
We will only find it in the firm middle ground of common sense and shared values".
He was the one who invited Lessing, who he thought was walking on his head in the manner of all philosophers, to perform a salto mortale (a jump heels over head) that would redress his position and thus allow him to move again on the ground of common sense.
Immediately after the Mid-term, the incoming Senate Majority Leader and others spoke of governing, seeking common ground and "common sense" solutions.
